[IO Islamic 2541] جامع الحكايات

Jâmi’-alḥikâyât.

This manuscript is now IO Islamic 797 in the India Office collections.

[metadata: Hermann Ethé, Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: India Office, 1903): volume 1, number 2541 here with notations and hyperlinks].

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Jâmi’-alḥikâyât (جامع الحكايات).

A collection of Persian stories, compiled from various sources in prose, interspersed with verses, by an anonymous author. Beginning, on fol. 2b:

اى خامۀ سحر سنح بخرام – در راه سخن ورى بنه كام.

Fol. 1 contains a useful index. The title of this collection appears on fol. 2b, l. 6. Both the contents, and the few dates of composition which are found at the end of some of these stories, viz. Rajab, A.H. 1028 (A.D. 1619, June, July), on fol. 21b, l. 3 ab infra; and 4th of Sha’bân, A.H. 1025 (A.D. 1616, Aug. 17), on fol. 41b, last line (A.H. 1046=A.D. 1636, 1637, at the end of the whole work is probably the date of the copy), show, clearly enough, that this collection has nothing in common with ‘Aufî’s well-known work of a similar title (see Nos. 600-604 in this Cat.).

The order of leaves, which are misplaced in a rather bewildering manner, is as follows: ff. 1-172, 217-228, 201-216, 173-200, 229-400.

Contents:

1.حكايت پادشاه كه در تلاش مرد بيغم سعى كرد, on fol. 2b.

2.حكايت شاهزاده كه در حيات پدر سفر اختيار كرد, on fol. 11b.

3.حكايت مردى منعم از شهر حلب, on fol. 21b.

4.حكايت حجّاج بن يوسف ثقفى, (styled at the end حكايت مسعود دمشقى و حجّاج), on fol. 24b.

5.حكايت خشت زن شهر كازرون, on fol. 41b, last line.

6.حكايت ملك فارس عزّ الملك و پسر او مجد الملك, on fol. 52a.

7.حكايت عزيز و زن, on fol. 74a (this story corresponds to the ninth in a collection of Persian tales in the Bodleian Cat., No. 477, col. 438).

8.حكايت بازرگان كه در كاروان سراى نيشاپور فرود آمده بود, on fol. 79a.

9.حكايت هشام بن عبدالملك (this tale, which is not marked in the index, is taken from Aḥmad bin A’tham al-Kûfî’s كتاب فتوح in the Persian translation, described in Nos. 131-133 of this Cat.), on fol. 82a.

10.حكايت هارون الرشيد و جوان سگ پرست, on fol. 84b.

11.حكايت شيخ صنعان و مريدان, on fol. 97b (compare Bacher, Karl der Grosse und seine Tochter Emma in Zeitschrift der D. Morgenl. Gesellschaft, vol. 34, p. 614).

12.حكايت چهار مرد (at the end: حكايت شهر بيجانان), on fol. 114b.

13.حكايت پرى و شاهزاده (in the index: حكايت پادشاه و پسر), in three قصّه , on ff. 119b, 123b, and 124b.

14.حكايت شاهزادۀ جوان و جوان بخت (in the index: حكايت پادشاه بلاد مغرب و سه پسراو), on fol. 125b.

15.حكايت بهرام گور و كنيزك (دلآرام), on fol. 141a.

16.حكايت شاهزادۀ نوجوان و دخترشاه يمن (in the index: حكايت پادشاه ولايت خطا), on fol. 146b.

17.حكايت دختر شاه كشمير و شاهزادۀ قنوج, on fol. 163b.

18.حكايت رضوان شاه و پرى و چشمه و آهو, on fol. 222a.

19.حكايت هارون الرشيد و اسحق موصلى, on fol. 204b.

20.حكايت آن شاهزاده كه مادر و پدر بفروخت و با دختر ملك چين مناظره كرد, on fol. 209a. (It is in substance identical with the original of Gozzi’s and Schiller’s Turandot, comp. another incomplete copy of the same story in No. 798; at the end the same moral inferences, which are given in the following copy.)

21.حكايت پادشاه شمشير بند, on fol. 183a (corresponding to the eighth story in the above-mentioned collection, Bodleian Cat., No. 477, col. 438).

22.حكايت مرد و زن, on fol. 195b.

23.حكايت مرد و زن جميل, on fol. 195b.

24.حكايت مرد مطرب و زن صاحب جمال, on fol. 196a.

25.حكايت ابوبكر ربّانى, on fol. 196a.

26.حكايت پادشاه و دختر سپه سالار, on fol. 196b.

27.حكايت مرد بنا و مهندسى و زن مستوره, on fol. 229b.

28.حكايت آن پادشاه زاده كه در خواب بر دخترى عاشق شد كه سه خال بر روى داشت, on fol. 243b.

29.حكايت خالد جوهرى (در شهربصره) و پسرش منصور و يوسف حجّام, on fol. 270b.

30.داستان آن پادشاه كه زن پرى زاد خواست و قصّۀ مار سياه و سفيد, on fol. 303b.

31.داستان سعد و سعيد و شمعون جهود و مرغ سعادت , on fol. 307a.

32.حكايت پادشاه دريا بار و صد پسر, on fol. 316a.

33.حكايت داستان شاهزاده و حصيرباف, on fol. 324b.

34.داستان ماهى گير و پسر, on fol. 326a.

35.حكايت پادشاه شهر بغداد, on fol. 332a.

36.داستان بازرگان بصره, on fol. 333a. (This and the following eight stories are in substance identical with the tales of the Bakhtyâr-nâma, comp. Sir W. Ouseley’s edition of it, London, 1801.)

37.حكايت پادشاه حلب, on fol. 336b.

38.داستان مرد صابر, on fol. 339b.

39.حكايت پادشاه يمن, on fol. 344a.

40.حكايت پادشاه بلاد طبرستان, on fol. 347b.

41.حكايت پادشاه حبشه, on fol. 352b.

42.حكايت مرد جواهر شناس بغداد, on fol. 358a.

43.حكایت ابو تمام, on fol. 361b.

44.حكايت پادشاه حجاز, on fol. 364b.

45.حكايت منصور دمشقى و گنج یافتن, on fol. 367b (corresponding to the fourth story in the above-mentioned collection, Bodleian Cat., No. 477, col. 438).

46.حكايت پادشاه و پسر عاقل, on fol. 374b (corresponding to the third story in the same).

47.حكايت قاضى كه از خرمن گل بزير افتاد, on fol. 379a.

48.حكايت خشت زن و خليفۀ بغداد, on fol. 380b.

49.حكايت مرد ابطال در شهر كوفه, on fol. 384b.

50.حكايت مردى در عهد عضد الدوله در شهر بغداد, on fol. 390b.

51.A story without any heading, effaced in many places, dealing with an incident in ‘Alî’s Khilâfat, on fol. 393a.

52.حكايت تاجر مصرى, on fol. 395a.

The collection ends on fol. 399a; but the following pages down to fol. 401a contain an additional story, written by another hand in diagonal lines and dated A.H. 1055, the 2nd of Dhû-alḳa’dah (A.D. 1645, Dec. 20). Bibliotheca Leydeniana.

No. 2541, ff. 401, ll. 17; Nasta’lîḳ, written by two principal hands, the one on ff. 1-172 and 201-228, the other on ff. 174-200, 229-268, and 271-399; a third and fourth hand, the latter especially approaching Shikasta, on ff. 173 and 269-270, ll. 18-20; size, 11 in. by 61/4 in.